==[[Window 40 | Intro]]==Options for the mouse theremin==[[Window 117 | Mouse theremin ;-)]]==Theremin played from mouse or joystick...The theremin is that instrument you can play by waving your hands in the air without touching anything. Here you use the mouse or joystick instead of just moving your hands around. As you move the mouse or joystick the note you play slides around in pitch wherever you want it to go.This is just a bit of fun. Has various options - try the sliding chords preset :-).==[[Window 39 | Drone...]]==Add a drone and set how long it continues after the note you play stops==Help = F1==Click for help for this window. Or F1. Other opts: Shift , Alt, Ctrl + click... F1 or click shows the help for the current window in your web browser. Some windows may have no help yet in which case the help icon is shown crossed out with a red line.Shift + F1 or Shift + Click brings up the tool tips extra help window (this window) to show any extra help for a tool tip. You can tell if a tool tip has extra help if it ends ... like this one.Ctrl + F1 or Ctrl + click takes you to the list of keyboard shortcuts for Tune Smithy.Alt + F1 or Alt + click (alternatively Caps lock physically held down + F1 or Click) takes you to the on-line page at the robertinventor.com web site about the current main window task - which gives a short introduction to it for newbies to the program. If there is no on-line page specific to a task, takes you to the main tune smithy page on the web site.Since the help for Tune Smithy is currently a bit out of date and needs to be redone completely for the new 3.0 release, then you may find the on-line page for some of the newer tasks particularly useful. ==Organise Windows = F2==Or F2 - Reset / save / open for individual windows, right click for cat. list...Shows the Organise windows window - which you can use to reset all the parameters for the current window - or save them all, or open previously saved parameters for just this window. Also has a drop list of all the windows and their shortcuts.You can also right click on this icon as a quick way to get the floating drop menu of all the Tune Smithy windows organised by category==Theremin Dialog Star==Show tip of the day - Theremin category - right click for neighbouring windows...So far there is only one tip for the theremin, more to come.So it isn't a bug if you always see the same one when you click here.Left click for a tip of the day in this category.Right click to see a menu of neighbouring windows.The neighbours are the ones you most often move to after this one or within a minute of this one, arranged by popularity.So as you continue to use FTS, it will learn your habits, and the neighbouring windows listed here, should be the ones you most often visit after this one.

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Theremin played from mouse or joystick...

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This is just a bit of fun. Has various options - try the sliding chords preset :-).

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==[[Window 39 | Drone...]]==

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Add a drone and set how long it continues after the note you play stops

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Click for help for this window. Or F1. Other opts: Shift , Alt, Ctrl + click...

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F1 or click shows the help for the current window in your web browser.

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Some windows may have no help yet in which case the help icon is shown crossed out with a red line.

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Shift + F1 or Shift + Click brings up the tool tips extra help window (this window) to show any extra help for a tool tip.

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You can tell if a tool tip has extra help if it ends ... like this one.

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Ctrl + F1 or Ctrl + click takes you to the list of keyboard shortcuts for Tune Smithy.

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Alt + F1 or Alt + click (alternatively Caps lock physically held down + F1 or Click) takes you to the on-line page at the robertinventor.com web site about the current main window task - which gives a short introduction to it for newbies to the program. If there is no on-line page specific to a task, takes you to the main tune smithy page on the web site.

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Since the help for Tune Smithy is currently a bit out of date and needs to be redone completely for the new 3.0 release, then you may find the on-line page for some of the newer tasks particularly useful.

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==Organise Windows = F2==

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Or F2 - Reset / save / open for individual windows, right click for cat. list...

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You can also right click on this icon as a quick way to get the floating drop menu of all the Tune Smithy windows organised by category

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==Theremin Dialog Star==

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Show tip of the day - Theremin category - right click for neighbouring windows...

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So it isn't a bug if you always see the same one when you click here.

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Left click for a tip of the day in this category.

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Right click to see a menu of neighbouring windows.

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The neighbours are the ones you most often move to after this one or within a minute of this one, arranged by popularity.

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So as you continue to use FTS, it will learn your habits, and the neighbouring windows listed here, should be the ones you most often visit after this one.

Revision as of 04:16, 10 July 2008

Theremin Options

== Intro==Options for the mouse theremin== Mouse theremin ;-)==Theremin played from mouse or joystick...The theremin is that instrument you can play by waving your hands in the air without touching anything. Here you use the mouse or joystick instead of just moving your hands around. As you move the mouse or joystick the note you play slides around in pitch wherever you want it to go.This is just a bit of fun. Has various options - try the sliding chords preset :-).== Drone...==Add a drone and set how long it continues after the note you play stops==Help = F1==Click for help for this window. Or F1. Other opts: Shift , Alt, Ctrl + click... F1 or click shows the help for the current window in your web browser. Some windows may have no help yet in which case the help icon is shown crossed out with a red line.Shift + F1 or Shift + Click brings up the tool tips extra help window (this window) to show any extra help for a tool tip. You can tell if a tool tip has extra help if it ends ... like this one.Ctrl + F1 or Ctrl + click takes you to the list of keyboard shortcuts for Tune Smithy.Alt + F1 or Alt + click (alternatively Caps lock physically held down + F1 or Click) takes you to the on-line page at the robertinventor.com web site about the current main window task - which gives a short introduction to it for newbies to the program. If there is no on-line page specific to a task, takes you to the main tune smithy page on the web site.Since the help for Tune Smithy is currently a bit out of date and needs to be redone completely for the new 3.0 release, then you may find the on-line page for some of the newer tasks particularly useful. ==Organise Windows = F2==Or F2 - Reset / save / open for individual windows, right click for cat. list...Shows the Organise windows window - which you can use to reset all the parameters for the current window - or save them all, or open previously saved parameters for just this window. Also has a drop list of all the windows and their shortcuts.You can also right click on this icon as a quick way to get the floating drop menu of all the Tune Smithy windows organised by category==Theremin Dialog Star==Show tip of the day - Theremin category - right click for neighbouring windows...So far there is only one tip for the theremin, more to come.So it isn't a bug if you always see the same one when you click here.Left click for a tip of the day in this category.Right click to see a menu of neighbouring windows.The neighbours are the ones you most often move to after this one or within a minute of this one, arranged by popularity.So as you continue to use FTS, it will learn your habits, and the neighbouring windows listed here, should be the ones you most often visit after this one.